St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-03-21
CHoNG rocks BoARDERs.
The Home of a Chinese Trades
Union.

NEW 1Ork llIQcS.
The advertisement of one Chong Fock,
published yesterday, has brought to light a
number of facts concerning the local
Chinese which were not hitherto known.
Chong Fock, to a Times representative yes
terday. explained this advertisement and
then his business. both being essentially
Chinese in method and character.
Under the most amicable circumstances
Chong Fock had purchased the business and
good will of Ing zee Gogue at No. 3S5
Water street. His first proceeding was to
publish that he would not be responsible
for Ing zee Gogue's debts, thereby leading
to the inference that Ing zee Gogue had
debts, and that his creditors were goomily
wondering who besides Ing zee Gogue was
going to pay them. 1t will now be in order.
according to the Chinese custom, for Ing
zee Gogue to say something horrible about
Chong Fock's cousin, whereupon the cousin
will indulge in slanderous insnuations
against Ing zee GOgue's uncle Oh the ma
ternal side, and the Gogues and Focks will
keep it up religiously from now on through
as many acts as a Chinese play.
Chong FOck'S business is the keeping of
boarding house for Chinese counterpart
of the Knights of Labor. 1t appears that
there are between four and five hundred
Chinese sailing out of this port as cooks
and stewards, and they have formed an
organization which is typified by row of
hen tracks quite imposing to look at. They
have officers and an organization entirely
independent of the Six Companies. 1t was
developed, by the way, that the dominion
OF the Six Companies, who control all the
Chinese in California, does not extend to
New York. The Chinese here are indie
pendent, pay no fees OF vassalage and ac-
knowledge no company sovereignty, unless
individuals may so elect. Otherwise such
an organization as the Cooks and Stewards
District assembly, so to say, would not be
permitted.
The boarding house consists of substan-
tial three-story building, the two upper floors
being devoted to bedrooms and the first or
main floor to eating. opium smoking and re-
lgious worship. The price charged is only
$3.50 per week, so that the birds nest
soups. Canton quail, puppy dogs and other
luxuries known to che Celestial epicures of
the West are not furnished. In the kitchen
there is fine cooking stove, pantries for
some picturesque china and the various uten-
sls of the America Chinese cuisine. In the
next room, sacred to opium couches, fat
sailor boy was recumbent in deep slumber,
.
centS'Worth of the Sirupy narcotic could make
him. A new wrinkle in opium-smoking
was here apparent. On the little lamp at
which the boy had lighted his pipe hung
TWO horrible looking beetles. one of red
and white enamel, the other of blue and
black, and each about an inch in length.
They had huge staring eyes. and it APP
peared that in a dark room, when the
lamp was lighted, the smoker shaded the
flame by putting them i'll front of it and the
light shone through their transparent eyes
into his with a most grotesque effect. To
an American the sight would produce twin
nightmares rather than sensuous imagining,
but as the Chinese do everything backward.
it is probable that their dreams are no ex-
ception to the rule.
The meeting hall or religious room has
the usual furniture. including all alter on
the eastern side, in which is picture of
Col. Larry" Jerome in Chinese costume